USB mounting for clip drive and others

Just wanted to check, if I do what b0uncer has told vampirelord to do here will that make my usb ports active? For example if I was to plug in another USB device would it detect it like in windows?

Heres the post i'm talking about:

Originally Posted by b0uncer make sure you have /mnt/usb (in this example) or the directory created you try to mount the thing to...then try: mount t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usb(or use whatever you want instead of /mnt/usb) If sda1 fails to work, then try /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1 (and if it fails, sdb, sdb1, sda4...I've seen many names on my one usb-flash memory, no idea why they change all the time...but sda1 works most of the time, and most of the time it doesn't work, sda works..got it?)

If not, is there anything I can do to make this happen?

Your usb ports might already be working.

Plug in the usb key and see if something happens with dmesg. It'll tell if it found the usb device and if it's recognised and which devie it is (/dev/sda1 for example).

Then you can edit your fstab accordingly and mount it.

Remeber to umount it before pulling it out though.

Good Luck!

I typed dmesg, and a whole load of stuff came up, I tried to look through to find anything with relevance to the usb port but I couldn't find anything.

I'm new to linux by the way.

If you plug in the usb key and it's recognised and then do dmesg it'll be the wery last few lines that are interesting.

Also do lsmod and see if any usb modules are loaded and active.

And if there are? What then?

After your system is up and running, open a terminal and do (as root):

# tail -f /var/log/messages


Then plug in your usb drive and watch for new messages in the terminal, you should see the kernel recognize it and assign it a device name. It'll usually be something like sda, sdb, etc.

Then, here's what I do:

1. In my home dir I create another directory called mnt
$ mkdir ~/mnt

2. $ cd mnt

3. Under the mnt dir create a dir for the usb device:
$ mkdir ~/mnt/sda

4. In /etc/fstab add a line for the usb drive:
# vim /etc/fstab
Add: /dev/sda /home/<user>/mnt/sda vfat defaults 0 0

5. Then, anytime I plug in my usb stick, all I have to do is open a terminal, and do:
$ cd mnt
$ mount sda
$ cd sda

6. And then I can see all of the contents of my usb drive

Hope this helps

Sorry about my bad english i have read the Flashmemory and usb camera how to but i get not mount an memorystick. It seams to be all ok but mount failed,

>$ mount 
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)

>$ cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/1

   Host scsi1: usb-storage
       Vendor: USB     
      Product: Flash Disk      
Serial Number: 70756540B45523BB
     Protocol: Transparent SCSI
    Transport: Bulk
         GUID: 0ea0216870756540b45523bb
     Attached: Yes (or No if i remove the usb stick)

>$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
T:  Bus=05 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#=  1 Spd=12  MxCh= 3
B:  Alloc=  0/900 us ( 0%), #Int=  0, #Iso=  0
D:  Ver= 1.10 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 0.00
S:  Product=USB OHCI Root Hub
S:  SerialNumber=d0e35000
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=40 MxPwr=  0mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub  ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=255ms

T:  Bus=05 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=01 Dev#=  3 Spd=12  MxCh= 0
D:  Ver= 2.00 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS=64 #Cfgs=  1
P:  Vendor=0ea0 ProdID=2168 Rev= 2.00
S:  Manufacturer=USB     
S:  Product=Flash Disk   <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< OK !!!!!   
S:  SerialNumber=70756540B45523BB
C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=200mA
I:  If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 3 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
E:  Ad=81(I) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=02(O) Atr=02(Bulk) MxPS=  64 Ivl=0ms
E:  Ad=83(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS=   2 Ivl=1ms

>$ mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbstick
mount: /dev/sda1 ist kein gültiges blockorientiertes Gerät

the system told me mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid bloc device.

Any idea what goes wrong?

Thanks for help.

Joshy

Did you try the instructions in my post, the one right above yours?

Originally Posted by jerryvb Did you try the instructions in my post, the one right above yours?

Hallo jerryvb,
you are right i forgot the line in the fstab and now it works.

Thank you.

Joshy

Glad to be of help. :-)

My wife gave me a memstick for Navidad, So when I try to use it on my linux box this is what I get, I've read the above post and still don't see where I've gone wrong.


Frist I checked to see if my usb was runing correctly, it seems to be
working right here's the results from dmesg.

steve@debbox:~$ dmesg | grep -i usb usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:07.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found ohci_hcd: 2004 Feb 02 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI) ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.0: NEC Corporation USB ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: NEC Corporation USB (#2) ohci_hcd 0000:00:0a.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 ehci_hcd 0000:00:0a.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 2004-May-10 hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using address 2 Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices USB Mass Storage device found at 2 usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage USB Mass Storage support registered.

But it didn't show the device so I ran it again with scsi instead of usb
and got these results.

steve@debbox:~$ dmesg | grep -i scsi SCSI subsystem initialized scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 499712 512-byte hdwr sectors (256 MB) /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: [CUMANA/ADFS] p1<5>Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0

So I set up the fstab as follows using every device that would function
sda,sda1 seem to be the only ones that function all others say invalid
block device.

/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0

Here are the different results I get.

with file system iso9660 in fstab

steve@debbox:~$ mount /mnt/usb mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

with file system auto in fstab

steve@debbox:~$ mount /mnt/usb mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

with file system vfat in fstab

steve@debbox:~$ mount /mnt/usb mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1, missing codepage or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so

So since it keep saying try dmesg |tail I tried it but still don't understand what my error is. It's probibly something so simple I feel like a fool when someone else points it out.

steve@debbox:~$ dmesg | tail Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378395 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378396 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378397 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378398 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378399 Buffer I/O error on device sda1, logical block 508378384 FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda. FAT: invalid media value (0xb9) VFS: Can't find a valid FAT filesystem on dev sda1.

I sure would like some help here. Thanks a bunch.

Originally Posted by muskrat My wife gave me a memstick for Navidad, So when I try to use it on my linux box this is what I get, I've read the above post and still don't see where I've gone wrong. I sure would like some help here. Thanks a bunch.

I recommend seting up usb stick devices in your own home directory, it sure is a lot easier.

1. log in to your system as your normal user
2. open a terminal, i.e. xterm
3. You should see a $ sign prompt
4. type: "mkdir mnt" <Enter> without the quotes; this creates a directory called "mnt"
5. type: cd mnt <Enter>
6. open a second terminal
7. in the second terminal log in as root
type: su -
enter root's password
type: tail -f -n20 /var/log/messages (or whereever your system logs messages)

8. Now, plug in your usb stick

9. Watch the messages in the second terminal, you should see something like this:

Dec 26 19:01:44 lightstar kernel: hub.c: new USB device 00:02.2-5, assigned address 2
Dec 26 19:01:44 lightstar kernel: scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec 26 19:01:44 lightstar kernel: sdf: Unit Not Ready, sense:
Dec 26 19:01:44 lightstar kernel: sdf: sdf1

10. The important line is the last one, you see that the kernel assigned my device the device number sdf1

11. Now, in the FIRST terminal, create a directory under mnt for the usb stick:
type: "mkdir sdf1" (Replace sdf1 with whatever your device number is.)

11. Now, in the second terminal press Ctl-C, this will close the tail process and leave you at a root prompt.

12. Now, open whatever editor you feel comfortable with as root and edit the file /etc/fstab

13. As an example, for my sdf1 device I added the following line to fstab:
/dev/sdf1 /home/jerry/mnt/sdf1 auto noauto,users 0 0
Now, save the file.

14. That's it! Now, when I plug in my usb device, all I have to do is open a terminal and type:
$ cd mnt
$ mount sdf1
$ cd sdf1
$ ls
And there is all the contents of my usb stick right before my eyes!

Please note, I use Slackware, all of this works on my system. Depending on your distribution, a few things might be a little different.

Disclaimer: I take no responsibility whatsoever for the use of these instructions. Who knows, your machine just might morph into a ball of cotton candy for using these instructions. Happy New Year! :-)

HTH
jerry

Thanks Jerry; I'll give a try. I know all the USB devices work because since I posted I swapped out the drives and did another instalation with the drives hooked up and the distro picked them up automaticly. So with your info I should be able to get them to working on my older install, Thanks.